Henry Moore’s Stringed Figure (1939), in the booth of London’s Offer Waterman, at TEFAF Spring 2017. MAXIMILÍANO DURÓN/ARTNEWS The storied TEFAF, whose acronym originally stood for The European Fine Art Fair, returns to New York and the Park Avenue Armory for its spring presentation of modern and contemporary art. And while the Old Masters and

Around 1922, in his apartment at Nice, right along France’s balmy Mediterranean shore, Henri Matisse began to paint a series of odalisques — “a French term for a concubine in a harem,” explains London Royal Academy of Arts curator Ann Dumas. Henri Matisse’s 1912 oil painting “Goldfish and Sculpture.” (Courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Booth Shot of Ulrich Fielder featuring the Gerrit Rietveld Z Chairs. Courtesy of Ulrich Fielder Gallery There I was. In the booths of TEFAF—The European Fine Art Fair, for those uninitiated—the yearly event that lures the skinny-silk-suit-wearing, delicate cologne-scented collectors, the serious kind who neither want their names nor faces known by anyone other than

View of The European Fine Art Fair in Maastricht, Holland. (Photo credit: S. Karabell) S. Karabell The Art Market Report, issued by The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) each year during its 10-day March event in Maastricht, Holland, is something of a bible for costs and trends in the world’s art market. So when, this

Artworks on sale at Maastricht’s TEFAF art fair The TEFAF in Maastricht is a pilgrimage site for wealthy art lovers from all over the world. Will this year’s fair be as successful as previous years? Image: TEFAF 2017 Once a year, the conference center in the city of Maastricht in the Netherlands is transformed into

Analysis In a thriving international art business, there was a marked shift to private transactions. Artnet News March 4, 2017 Auctioneer Jussi Pylkkanen of Christie’s. Photo: Andrew Burton/Getty Images. Global art sales went up, auction houses got squeezed, and Asian bidders took home an increasingly large piece of the art-market pie. That, at least, is the

Axel Vervoordt Gallery took over a historic room on the second floor of the Armory for TEFAF New York in 2016. Courtesy of Axel Vervoordt Gallery. The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), the Netherlands-based enterprise, has announced the exhibitor lineup for the first edition of its stateside spring fair. Having introduced the New York edition

There’s something for everyone as Cologne Fine Art, WIKAM, Art & Antique Hofburg and the Winter Art & Antiques Fair all open A diverse range of fairs catering to all tastes can be found in Europe this November. Running from 17–20 November, Cologne Fine Art presents 150 international exhibitors, offering everything from antiquities and Old

On Saturday, TEFAF New York opens at the Park Avenue Armory, bringing Europe’s biggest art fair to Manhattan for the first time. Run by a nonprofit, The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF), the eponymous event has been drawing crowds of 75,000 to Maastricht in the Netherlands since 1988. Now New Yorkers will have their own

It’s increasingly common for art museums to play host to comics exhibitions. But what do comics — and manga, in particular — have to teach us about traditional forms of western fine art? Jiro Taniguchi’s latest work, Guardians of the Louvre, offers an exquisite example of the use of manga to present and showcase other